Senior VFX Engineer - Remote Real-Time Unity Rendering Lead

Jobgether SRL; South Africa; À distance; ZAR 900 000 - 1 500 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Ownership-focused role

Cross-team collaboration

Fully remote work

Flexible contracts

Résumé du poste

Jobgether SRL is seeking a Senior VFX Engineer based in South Africa to own and develop real-time visual effects within a Unity3D project. You will blend shader development, particle systems, and runtime architecture to deliver scalable, production-ready solutions.

You will collaborate with VFX Artists, Technical Artists and Gameplay Engineers to translate creative concepts into robust technical implementations while optimizing for performance and cross-platform support.

Qualifications

• Strong professional experience with HLSL shader programming and real-time VFX development.
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Responsabilités

• Develop scalable runtime systems for high-frequency gameplay effects, including pooling, shared emitters, batching, prioritization, and effect budgets.
• Design and implement shaders using HLSL, Shader Graph, Amplify, or comparable technologies.
• Build and optimize particle-based effects using mesh particles, trails, flipbooks, procedural techniques, and GPU-driven approaches.
• Create artist-facing Unity tools, including custom inspectors, validators, asset processors, batch workflows, and reusable production utilities.
• Optimize VFX for mobile and other performance-constrained platforms, with a focus on GPU performance, memory usage, overdraw, shader complexity, and runtime efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with VFX Artists, Technical Artists, Gameplay Engineers, and Rendering Engineers to translate creative requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Prototype new rendering and VFX approaches, validate their technical feasibility, and bring successful solutions through to production.
• Establish reusable templates, workflows, documentation, and technical standards that improve the efficiency and consistency of the wider VFX team.
• Act as a bridge between artistic and engineering disciplines, making informed technical decisions that balance visual quality, scalability, and performance.
• Review and improve existing systems while leaving behind clean, maintainable technology that benefits the broader team.

Connaissances

HLSL

Shader Graph

Unity

C# scripting

ECS/DOTS

GPU optimization

Mobile optimization

Shuriken

Outils

Unity Editor

Amplify Shader Editor

Shader Graph

C#

DOTS

Description du poste

Jobgether SRL is seeking a Senior VFX Engineer based in South Africa to own and develop real-time visual effects within a Unity3D project. You will blend shader development, particle systems, and runtime architecture to deliver scalable, production-ready solutions.

You will collaborate with VFX Artists, Technical Artists and Gameplay Engineers to translate creative concepts into robust technical implementations while optimizing for performance and cross-platform support.